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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 13 November 202625 issues · 69 checks

This review found 25 issues worth fixing on bargainmax.co.uk, 9 of them high impact, across 69 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Site score

Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
3.0 s2.3 sJul 18Nov 72.6 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Jul 18, 20262.3 s
Jul 25, 20262.4 s
Aug 1, 20262.4 s
Aug 8, 20262.5 s
Aug 15, 20262.6 s
Aug 22, 20262.7 s
Aug 29, 20262.8 s
Sep 5, 20262.9 s
Sep 12, 20262.9 s
Sep 19, 20262.9 s
Sep 26, 20262.8 s
Oct 3, 20262.8 s
Oct 10, 20262.7 s
Oct 17, 20262.6 s
Oct 24, 20262.6 s
Oct 31, 20262.6 s
Nov 7, 20262.6 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
320 ms258 msJul 18Nov 7265 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Jul 18, 2026287 ms
Jul 25, 2026303 ms
Aug 1, 2026310 ms
Aug 8, 2026312 ms
Aug 15, 2026313 ms
Aug 22, 2026308 ms
Aug 29, 2026297 ms
Sep 5, 2026288 ms
Sep 12, 2026282 ms
Sep 19, 2026285 ms
Sep 26, 2026283 ms
Oct 3, 2026283 ms
Oct 10, 2026286 ms
Oct 17, 2026281 ms
Oct 24, 2026272 ms
Oct 31, 2026270 ms
Nov 7, 2026265 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

No screenshot is available for this review.

Speed

Not measured in this review.

Core Web Vitals

3 to fix33
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Real-user LCP: 2.5 s

    2.5 s

    Real visitors wait 2.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 262 ms

    262 ms

    Real visitors wait 262 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -9%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 287 ms to 265 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    +9%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.3 s to 2.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

3 checks passed
  • Real-user CLS: 0.04

    0.04

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.04 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 511 ms

    511 ms

    Real visitors wait 511 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 4.0 MB

    4.0 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.0 MB on a phone, 736 KiB of it images (18%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 1.1 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.12 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.12 g of CO₂e: 134.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 checks passed
  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

12 to fix85
  • Invalid ARIA attributes

    1 element use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.

  • Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children (1 element)

    Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  • Orphan list items

    Some list items are not inside a list.

  • 7 text elements with low contrast

    7 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • Malformed lists

    Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

  • 1 tap target too small

    1 tap target is too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • 3 images without alt text

    3 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (2 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 26 form fields without a label

    26 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • 19 links without text

    19 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (6 elements)

    Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (4 elements)

    ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

1 checks passed
  • 51 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 61 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 51 passed and 10 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

100
  • 612 internal links, 0 external

    The homepage links to 612 pages on bargainmax.co.uk and 0 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 157 characters

    Your meta description is 157 characters: “Welcome to True Toys, previously BargainMax - the online toy shop. Delivering the true value of play on children's toys…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “We believe in the True Meaning of Christmas”.

  • Title: 51 characters

    Your title is a healthy 51 characters: “True Toys | Online Toy Shop | Previously BargainMax”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://truetoys.co.uk/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization and ToyStore.

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://truetoys.co.uk/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
4 checks passed
  • AI answer engines may read the site

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

  • Organization data: 5 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, description and contact details; sameAs (social profiles) would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (2,844 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://truetoys.co.uk/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

3 to fix83
  • 1 linked page hidden from search

    https://truetoys.co.uk/collections/all is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 4 pages without a meta description

    https://truetoys.co.uk/pages/contact, https://truetoys.co.uk/collections/max-deals, https://truetoys.co.uk/pages/the-true-list and https://truetoys.co.uk/pages/the-christmas-shop have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 pages without an H1

    https://truetoys.co.uk/collections/all, https://truetoys.co.uk/pages/contact, https://truetoys.co.uk/collections/top-toys-this-christmas, https://truetoys.co.uk/products/little-live-pets-mama-surprise-kittens, https://truetoys.co.uk/products/wow-stuff-how-to-train-your-dragon-toothless-puppetronic and https://truetoys.co.uk/collections/max-deals and 9 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 2 pages slow to respond

    https://truetoys.co.uk/pages/the-christmas-shop and https://truetoys.co.uk/collections/advent-calendars took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 179 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

4 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

3 to fix71
  • 2 broken images

    2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.net/action/0?ti=343200055&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=03d475b2-d062-4fa1-9b81-4d3bd834a55c&bo=2&pi=918639831&lg=en-US&sw=390&sh=844&sc=24&nwd=1&tl=True%20Toys%20%7C%20Online%20Toy%20Shop%20%7.

  • 90 small tap targets

    90 of 389 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 6 JavaScript errors while loading

    6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'loadFeatures')”.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix81
  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

  • No phone number on the homepage

    A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

  • No direct contact details

    No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • No risk reducer

    No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

  • About 1,993 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,993 words of visible text.

5 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “The Christmas Shop” and “Shop by age”.

  • 32 calls to action

    The homepage has 32 calls to action, for example “Shop all products”, “The Christmas Shop” and “Join the true believers”.

  • 13 short forms

    13 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 4 testimonial or review blocks and a star rating.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity.

Privacy and tracking

  • 6 trackers load before any consent

    6

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Microsoft Ads and 1 more (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Cookiebot) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 9 cookies set on arrival

    9

    Opening the homepage sets 9 cookies, 3 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 50 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 50 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: Cookiebot

    A consent management tool (Cookiebot) loads with the page.

Security, domain, email and software versions

The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at bargainmax.co.uk, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Apps on your store

Your storefront loads 15 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Gorgias Live Chat Helpdesk · Awin Affiliate Marketing · Fast Bundle Upsell · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Reelup Shoppable Videos Reels · Nospy · Estimated Delivery Days · Reviews Co Uk Product And Merchant Review Collection · Essential Pre Order Presale · Essential Loyalty Rewards · Bestpush · cloudfront.net · trustpilot.com · influencer-hero.com · noibu.com

Apps found in the homepage's code. Apps that only run in checkout or the admin aren't seen, and a headless storefront shows none. App data from programmable.info

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

Framework
jQuery
E-commerce
Shopify
Analytics
Google Tag Manager | Microsoft Clarity
Hosting
Shopify

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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